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Saturday 26 December 2015

Japanese battle cruiser Haruna (1912) in 1923



Launched in 1913, completed in 1915. Displacement 27.500 tons, horsepower 64.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine machinery and an armament of 8-14” guns, 16-6” guns, 4-12pd anti aircraft guns and 8 submerged torpedo tubes.(1)

Note
1. Brassey‘s naval and shipping annual 1923. Dimensions 653,5 x 92 x 27,5 feet. Built at Kobe, Japan. Armour consisted of 1-6”8” belt, 2.75” thick deck, main guns protected by 10” and the secondary armament by 7” thick armour. Speed 27.5 knots. Coal bunker capacity 1.000 ton. Her crew numbered 980 men.

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.